One of the most powerful words in the English language, "corruption" is also one of the most troubled concepts in law. According to Laura Underkuffler, it is a concept based on religiously revealed ideas of good and evil. But the notion of corruption...

Carl Van Vechten was a white man with a passion for blackness who played a crucial role in helping the Harlem Renaissance, a black movement, come to understand itself. "Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance" is grounded in the dramas occasioned...

This book is the first major account of political thought in twentieth-century Europe – both West and East – to appear since the end of the Cold War. Skilfully blending intellectual, political, and cultural history, Jan-Werner Muller elucidates the i...

This briskly told history of Reformed Protestantism takes these churches through their entire 500-year history – from sixteenth-century Zurich and Geneva to modern locations as far flung as Seoul and Sao Paulo. D. G. Hart explores specifically the so...

This ambitious publication is the first book to thoroughly evaluate the photography that emerged during Germany's geopolitical division from the 1950s to the 1980s. With richly illustrated and exhaustively researched analyses of photographic projects...

This powerful and innovative work by a gifted cultural historian explores the effects of religious conversion on family relationships, showing how the challenges of the reformation can offer insight to families facing similarly divisive challenges to...

In January 1935, the Vernay-Hopwood Chindwin Expedition departed from Rangoon to explore the Chindwin River valley on behalf of the American Museum of Natural History. The party traversed northern Burma, gathering biological specimens and ethnologica...

Making extensive use of archival and other primary sources, David Schorr demonstrates that the development of the "appropriation doctrine", a system of private rights in water, was part of a radical attack on monopoly and corporate power in the arid...

This volume completes publication of the cuneiform documents of the Hellenistic period in the "Yale Babylonian Collection", begun by A. T. Clay in 1913. This long-awaited edition contains reproductions of 103 texts from the city of Uruk, dating to th...

Contemporaries in imagination as in fact, James Joyce and Sigmund Freud pondered the complexities and depths of human consciousness and found distinct ways to represent it-the one as a great novelist, the other as the first psychoanalyst. In this boo...